Re: [Monotone-devel] .mtn-ignore ignored?

[Timothy Brownawell]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Timothy Brownawell writes:
>> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> It seems my regexps in .mtn-ignore no longer works.  When I call "mtn ls
>>> ignored", the resulting list is always empty.  When I do "mtn add -R .",
>>> it add all files including the ones I want to ignore, and that match the
>>> regexps.
>>>
>>> I think this is a regression since 0.36 or so; I know for a fact that
>>> these same regexps used to work.
>>>
>>> Do recent versions of monotone still support .mtn-ignore, as the
>>> documentation says?
>> Yes, for example the .mtn-ignore in net.venge.monotone seems to work
>> fine. 0.37 did switch from Boost::regex to PCRE, but NEWS says this
>> shouldn't have broken anything. Do you have examples of the patterns and
>> the files they're failing to match?
> 
> $ cat .mtn-ignore
> debian/files
> debian/gnat
> $ mtn ls ignored
> $ mtn ls debian/files debian/gnat
> debian/files
> 
> debian/gnat:
> DEBIAN  usr
> $ mtn ls known
> .mtn-ignore
> debian
> debian/changelog
> debian/compat
> debian/control
> debian/copyright
> debian/rules
> debian/source.lintian-overrides
> $ mtn add debian/files # should be ignored
> mtn: adding debian/files to workspace manifest
> 
> I sincerely hope I'm doing something wrong... I tried the following
> regular expressions, all with the same result:
> 
> debian/files
> ^debian/files$
> /debian/files
> ^\./debian/files$
> ^/debian/files$
> 
> (The last three do not match the output of "mtn ls unknown" so I don't
> expect them to work; but I do expect the first two to work.)

They should work, and they *do* work here. So if you haven't overridden
the ignore_file() hook and this is in the workspace root directory, I'm
not sure what could be going on.